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Which partitioning is required for TCL 3.3 and a PC with a 780MB RAM?

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curaga:
Whether 780mb without swap is enough depends on what you want to do. Running a couple of OpenOffice docs or 20 youtube tabs will need swap, but for other uses that much ram will suffice just fine.

Heck, you could even load the extensions to ram and enjoy the speed. Swap is recommended though, just as a backup.

tinypoodle:

--- Quote from: gerald_clark on December 14, 2010, 07:59:05 PM ---The swap partition has the advantage that it is automatically found and activated.

As far as no need to partition, what bootloader will boot a hard disk with no partitions?
( I am not referring to USB here ).

--- End quote ---

Oops, semantics...
What I had in mind was no partitioning needed - assuming there is already one partition present at current.

Post in question edited for clarification.

To activate a swapfile at boot:

--- Quote ---tinycore swapfile{=hda1}            Scan or Specify swapfile
--- End quote ---
though I highly doubt with specific hardware constellation swap at boot would ever play any role.

floppy:
Thanks,
so I will try at the next opportunity (after sticking in an extensive battle with santa which is robbing my whole energy)
- hda2 SWAP 300k; just in case
- hda1 rest as linux partition
But the installation HOWTO indicated boot/swap/linux-rest. So, this installation HOWTO should be updated?
Regards,
Pascal

gerald_clark:
The howto covers a more general case than your tiny 6G drive.
The howto covers general concepts.
A user is expected to adapt it where necessary to specific conditions.

floppy:
Thanks,
then, I will stay with the general advices, adapted with forum answers
- hda1 100MB boot
- hda2 tce, home,..
- hda3 300MB swap (for just in case)
Pascal

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